We introduce a new way of modeling the physics beyond Standard Model by considering fake, strictly off-shell degrees freedom: fakeons. To demonstrate approach and exemplify its reach, we re-analyze phenomenology Inert Doublet under assumption that second doublet is fakeon. Remarkably, fake avoids most stringent $Z$-pole constraints regardless chosen mass scale, thereby allowing for presence eff...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the main components of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Waste PCBs contain several kinds of heavy metals, including Cu, Pb and Zn. We characterize the leaching of heavy metals (Cu, Pb, Zn and Ni) from waste PCBs in a pH range of 3.0 to 5.6 using a novel approach based on batch pH-static leaching experiments in this work. The results indicate that the ...

Sphingolipid biosynthesis was studied in cultured murine cerebellar cells in the absence and presence of exogenous sphingosine homologues with different alkyl chain lengths (12, 18, and 24 carbon atoms). Labeling of cells with [14C]serine for 24 h indicated that endogenous sphingosine biosynthesis with incorporation of radiolabeled serine was inhibited by these long chain bases (0.5-50 microM) ...

Colloidal microand nanospheres have been of continuous research interest, since their intrinsic properties can be finely tuned by changing parameters such as diameter, chemical composition, bulk structure, and crystallinity. Up to now, they have found a broad range of applications in fields such as drug delivery, biodiagnostics, combinatorial synthesis, and photonic band-gap crystals (PBG). The...

We use first-principles methods to investigate the adsorption of Cu, Pb, Ag, and Mg onto a H-terminated Si surface. We show that Cu and Pb can adsorb strongly while Ag and Mg are fairly inert. In addition, adsorption states of two types are seen to exist for Pb. We also study the clustering energetics of Cu and Pb on the surface and find that while Cu clusters eagerly, Pb may prefer to form onl...

We investigate the signatures of neutrinos produced in the annihilation of WIMP dark matter in the Earth, the Sun and at the Galactic centre within the framework of the Inert Doublet Model and extensions. To accommodate the WMAP constraints, the dark matter candidate, which is one of the neutral components of an extra Higgs doublet, must have a mass in either one of three distinct mass ranges: ...

Interaction between graphene and semiconducting diamond substrate has been examined with large-scale density functional theory calculations. Clean and hydrogenated diamond (100) and (111) surfaces have been studied. It turns out that weak van der Waals interactions dominate for graphene on all these surfaces. High carrier mobility of graphene is almost not affected, except for a negligible ener...

Consider a reflecting diffusion in a domain in R that acquires drift in proportion to the amount of local time spent on the boundary of the domain. We show that the stationary distribution for the joint law of the position of the reflecting process and the value of the drift vector has a product form. Moreover, the first component is the symmetrizing measure on the domain for the reflecting dif...